School bank book



March 8, 1960 B. L. MILNE scHoor. BANK BooK Filed oct. 18, 195'? l ANCE m INVENTOR. 22PM 2,921,803 scHooL VBANK BooK Bruce L. Milne, Redmond, Wash., assigner to Carpenter Paper Company, a corporation of Delaware Application october 1s, 1951, serial Nn. 691,064

1A Claim'.Y (ci. zag- 25)V I' recording the money which is deposited by studentson In many school districts throughout the country it is the practice to set aside a day each week known`as bank day, when the members of various classes deposit a sum-usually quite smallin their individual bank accounts.

In the past, it has been the practice for the teae'her to receive the money from the pupils along with the passbook and deposit slip; and to send the money, passbook and deposit slip by messenger to the bank where the deposits are entered and` the passbooks are returned by messengers to the school for distribution to the students. There are, of course, other methods of handling the deposits, but they all entail bookkeeping on the part of the teacher and return of deposit receipts by the bank. While it is good public relations'for the banking profession and a public vservice to encourage savings accounts on the part of school children, the ten and fifteen cent deposits are not such that-they can support a large expenditure for laccount services and generally such deposits result in little or no profit to thebanks because of the large bookkeeping overhead-involved. f f

A manager of a bankhaving six thousand school savings accounts has estimated thatfthe savings to his bank to be gained by using the bank book of the present invention is forty-five hundred` dollars annually. lfhese savings are gained through-time saved in the elimination of posting deposits to passbooks, writing receipts which are not necessary, virtual elimination of lost passbooks, t'he elimination of having to call in the passbooks for posting interest, and the reduction of messenger service necessary.

The advantages to the school are in the simplification of the bank day mechanics. Since theteacher simply collects the prepared deposit envelopes, valuable class time is saved, no money need be handled in class, and no passbooks have to be collected and redistributed. In addition to the class saving, the teachers valuable time is conserved by eliminating her bookkeeping function so that there are no deposits to check, no totals to reconcile, and no banking supplies to contend with.

The present invention provides a compact package or kit including a deposit envelope, a permanent record, and means for convenient handling thereof. With the present invention the deposit record is kept at home rather than being carried to and from school, thereby eliminating one costly item in children's accountsthe replacement of lost passbooks.

Since the record is kept at home, the parents have an opportunity to give individual guidance to their children in the savings program, and to relieve the teacher of much of the bookkeeping of the savings program.

The deposit envelope serves as a money container and United States Paf O yin preparing their savings deposits for school bank days.

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2 I a deposit form so that the child 'simply brings hisl deposit to vschool in the money container and hands the container to the teacher who forwards it to the bank by messenger, The depositors permanent record of the account is kept in the home so that unless there is a mistake on the deposit envelope there is no necessity for a return receipt from the bank, thereby eliminating the necessity for receipts, posting in the passbook, and a trip from the bank back to the school to return the passbooks and receipts.

It is therefore a primary object of the present invention to provide a compact kit comprising deposit envelopes in combination with a permanent record means for use in bank day collections.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a money container for transportation of money from the home to the school for deposit on bank days.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide means for children'to be assisted by their parents Yet another object of the present invention is to provideV means for handling deposits on school bank days which eliminate the necessityfor the handling of passbooks.

These and other objects of the present invention will be apparent to one skilled in the art from a reading of the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is an illustration of the permanent deposit record used in the present invention;

Figure 2 is a plan view of` the deposit envelope used in the present invention;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the savings kit used in the present invention; and

Figure 4 is a rear perspective View of the deposit envelope of the present invention.v

Referring first to Figures 2 and 4, a deposit envelope 11 is formed, of non-opaque material, with a front face 12, two overlapping side panels 13 and 14 and a bottom flap 16 which are glued together to'form a conventional envelope open at the top. The purpose of the non-opaque material is to enable the bank teller to ascertain the presence of money in the envelope prior to opening thereof so that thejenvelope may be returned unopened if the money has inadvertently been left out. The front face 12 of the deposit envelope 11 isV divided into three sections 12a, 12b, and 12c by two score lines 17 and 18. The score line 18 is extended to the side panels 13 and 14 ofl the envelope blank for purposes to be herein described.

A portion 12a of the front panel 12 has spaces thereon for identification of the particular deposit to be placed therein. This information includes the savings account number, the date, the amount of the deposit and the balance in the depositors account. The top portion 12C of the panel 12 is provided to serve as a securing means for holding the deposit envelope 11 in a savings kit or book, and the center portion 12b is provided with muoilage on its backside and a fold line to enable closing of the envelope by closing the portion 12b so that the entire portion 12b remains above the perforated line 18.

The deposit envelope 11 is so constructed that the depositor can tear the envelope out of the deposit kit along the perforated line 17, after entering his deposit information on the portion 12a therefor, place his deposit within the envelope and fold the portion 12b over for transportation of the deposit from the home to the school and from there to the bank. After the deposit envelope is received at the bank, the cashier or teller removes the top portion 12b by tearing the envelope on the perforated line 18 and removes the money therefrom. It will be noted that removal of the portion 12b leaves the Patented Mar. s, 1960v 2,927g8os portion 12a completely intact so that the deposit informatin is before the teller at ythe time he removes the money from the envelope so that he can check the actual deposit against the depositinformation to checkfor errors.

A permanent lrecord of the student depositoris kept on a deposit record 19,`an illustration of which is shown in Figure l. The deposit record is provided with space to note the date of deposit, the amount of deposit and the balance and isused in placeof a passbook. The deposit record 19 is bound into a saving kit illustrated in Figure 3 with itsinformation columns such as date, deposit, and balance corresponding to the deposit information columns discussed above with regard to the deposit envelope 11 and aV sheet of carbon paper 21 or any other suitable means of impression reproductionisinserted between the deposit sheet 19 and a plurality of.

deposit envelopes 11 which are bound together in the saving kit indicated .generally .as 22. One of the .plurality of deposit envelopes which are secured in the binder is of a different Vcolor than the others, and is placed near the bottom of the stack so as to notify the bank that the supply'of envelopesin a particular book is about exhausted. The savings kit 22 lhas a protective cover 23 to protect the unused deposit envelopes and the deposit slip while the book is in use and after the deposit `slip is completed as a permanent record.

In using the savings kit of mypresent invention, the deposit information is recorded on the deposit record sheet in the savings kit 22. This information is transferred by means of the carbon sheet 21 in the lkitito the first envelope 11a in the savings kit. The envelope 11a is then removed from the kit by tearing it along .the perforated line17 as described above and the money is deposited therein. As pointed out above, .the posting of the deposit information on the permanent record rappears on the deposit envelope so that the envelope now may be transferred to the bank with complete :information and the depositor has a complete record of the transaction. Since the permanent record-information and ,that on the deposit envelope is one and the same there can be no mistake. Therefore, if the deposit information tallies with the amount when the teller receives the deposit,the permanent record is automatically correct Athus eliminating the Y,need for a 'passboolc Upon receipt of the deposit envelope at Athe bankthe teller removes the portion 12b from the envelope and checks the contents against the deposit information and `if it is correct the transaction is complete.

With the bank day `kit not necessary to cll 4in the passbooks 'for posting of interest. When interest is to be added to the savings account, a notice is sent to the depositor who then enters his interest as an additional deposit on his subsequent deposit envelope and record and then carries the balance over to the balance column which makes the permanent record complete and advises the bank as to the amount entered by vthe depositor-so that the teller can check against the lbank records to ascertain that the correct amount. has ybeen entered.

While I have shown and described a certain preferred embodiment ofthe present invention, it will be understood by those skilledin the art that-various rearrangements and modilications may'be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as detfned in the appended claim.

l claim: v

A school bank book adapted Vfor facilitating deposits made by school children, comprising: a binding; a record sheet having an end portion secured in said binding, said record sheet having ruled columns for deposit and balance information thereon; a plurality of deposit envelopes for holding Vmoney to be deposited removably secured in said'binding `by means of a gummed closure 4Hap-thereon, said envelopes having ruled columns aligned with said first mentioned columns for deposit and balance information, said venvelopes also having a line of weakenin g spaced inwardly lfromthe area of sealing engagement of said gummed flap to allow reopening of said envelope without dangerl of tearing; andacarbon sheet secured in said `binding between saidrecord sheet and the uppermost of said plurality ,of,envelopes, whereby information inscribed in the columnsof said record sheet may be successively duplicatedon the corresponding column on the uppermost ofsaid deposit envelopes and after removal of said uppermost envelope, the next envelope is in position to receive in its columns information inscribed `on said sheet.

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